Taming of the Shrew

Robert Braithwaite Martineau (1844–1930)

1855

Oil on canvas

36 x 273/4 inches (92 x 71 cm). .

Collection of Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, accession no. WA1950.197

This painting was probably begun in 1852 under the supervision of Holman Hunt but wasn’t exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1855. It was later shown at the Liverpool Academy in 1857, no. 179 and once belonged to the noted Pre-Raphaelite collector James Leathart.

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